linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parport/ppdev: fix registration of sysctl entries

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Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:12:20 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parport/ppdev: fix registration of sysctl entries

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 05:05:19AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	c) *HOWEVER*, all races aside, we have a genuinely fscked up
> API.  Each of these parport scheduling entities has a parameter - timeslice.
> That parameter is exposed as sysctl.  And we definitely want these per-open,
> not per-port.  And we get everything for the same port mapped to the same
> sysctl.

Why we want it per-open? What's a timeslice (in this context)?
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